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Birds of Celebes: Charadriidae. 



"Bararanga nusahatan", Talaut, Nat. Coll. 



"Kingkedudu kadio", Siao, iid. 



"Lorie" (Shore-bird), Minahassa, iicL, — many sijecies having the same name. 



"Alalang", PeUug, iid. 



For further synonymy and references cf. Harting J/; Dresser XI; Salvadori 17, 44; 

 Sharpe f 1. 



Figures and descriptions. Kittlitz a II; Harting II; Dresser XI; Seebohm a 10 (head 

 — summer); Legge 13; Salvadori 17; Sharpe f 1. 



Adult in winter plumage. Above, together mth sides of breast, drab-brown, with paler tips 

 to the feathers; wing-coverts and remiges darker brown, alula blackish, the greater 

 wing-coverts margined and broadly tipped with white, inner primaries and outer 

 secondaries partly white on outer web; tail-feathers dark di-ab, tipped with white, 

 the outermost pair ahnost pure white; entire under-parts, with wing below, foi-e- 

 liead, cheeks and a mark above the ear-coverts white; in front of eye dusky, paler 

 on lores; ear-coverts drab; "iris dark brown; bill black; legs bluish grey; feet black- 

 grey" {rf, Kema, N. Celebes, 16. Aug. 1892: P.&F. Sarasin). 



Observation. All Celebesian specimens seen by us are in winter or young plumage, or imper- 

 fect summer plumage. 



Male in breeding plumage. A broad patch of black passing from the lores through and 

 Ijelow the eye on to the ear-coverts; a bar of black from the eye above across the 

 fore crown; anterior part of forehead white; head above russet; a broad band of rusty 

 red across the breast; for the rest much as in winter plumage. 



Female in breeding plumage. It "differs from the male in lacldng the black stripes over the 

 fore crown and tln-ough the eye, these parts being brownish grey ; the breast is paler 

 rufous, and the upper parts are rather darker and duller" (Dresser XI). 

 Equal in size (Hume 3). 



Much hke the adult in winter; the feathers above margined with pale buff, and in 

 lieu of the pectoral band a buff spot on each side of the breast; bill, legs and toes 



Sexes. 

 Young 



lighter than in the adult (from Harting //). 



Measurements. 



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BiU from 

 forehead 



a. (C 895) $, Limbotto, July 71 (Meyer) 



b. (Sarasin Coll.) cf, Kema, Aug. 1(3. 92 134 53 38 22 



c. (C 3534) Minahassa (Faber) 143 51 38 22.5 



d. (0 10910) near Manado, Aug.- Sept. 92 (Nat. Coll.) . — 52 37.5 23 



e. (C 10941) near Manado, Aug.— Sept. 92 (Nat. Coll.) . 134 50 38 24.5 



f. (C 12651) Siao, 19. July 93 (Nat. CoU.) 136 53 36.5 23.5 



5f. (C13032) Kabruang, 8. Nov.93 (Nat. Coll.). . . . 139 51 38.5 24 



^.. (0 13031) Kabniang, 8. Nov. 93 (Nat. Coll.). ... 137 50 37.5 23.5 



Observation. The specimens killed in the Minahassa in August and September (b, d, e) and 

 tlie two shot at Talaut in November (g, h) are moulting their remiges, the longer 

 pi'imaries in the first four cases being old feathers and the inner primaries and some 

 or all the secondaries new feathers, in some cases growing. At the same time the 

 feathers of the upper surface are old and worn, and it is clear that on these parts 

 the birds are in the worn plumage of summer. As to the under-parts it is more 

 difficult to form an opinion, but the feathers are soft and in good condition; from 

 this appearance, and from the cu-cumstance that nothing of the russet breast-band of 

 the breeding plumage is seen, we conclude that the birds have already passed through 

 the moult on this part. Therefore it is probable that the under plumage is moulted 



